Cured

Fascinating doc about doctors who took too long to heal themselves.

It's unrealistic to expect every queer film to tackle all aspects of queer life and history, but Cured presents its narrative in a way that's too clean and neat, too much of a happily-ever-after.

Cured takes viewers back to the bad old days when homosexuality was officially considered a psychiatric disease and gay and lesbian people were treated with electroshock and aversion therapy to “cure” them of their orientation.

The filmmakers contrast erroneous characterizations of homosexuality by mid-century psychiatrists with mid-century photographs that bore witness to gay people’s actual nature.